I discovered a nice way to modify requirements for installing software from msi packages. All you need is a MS program called orca(I provided it for your comfort), normally part of the W2k3 Platform SDK, to open and edit the database inside the msi files. For example to remove OS requirements, as it would be nice for my last entry about AOE 3, you can simply search and drop the rows which contain the value UnsoportedOS. It is good to test Software on Win x64, too. But sometimes the installed software won’t run at all, e.g. when a not supported Platform Function is called.

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